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The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes/Felicity Jones) Trailer

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The Invisible Woman, directed by Ralph Fiennes, will be released in the UK and Ireland on February 7, 2014, through Lionsgate, starring Felicity Jones in the title role alongside Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens.

Based on the book of the same name by Claire Tomalin and adapted for the screen by award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady), The Invisible Woman is Fiennes’ second acting/directing project following the critically acclaimed Coriolanus.

They are joined by a stellar British cast including Kristin Scott Thomas as Nelly’s mother – marking the first occasion Fiennes and Scott Thomas have appeared together on screen since the Academy Award® winning The English Patient in 1996 – alongside Tom Hollander (In The Loop, Pride & Prejudice) as author and friend of Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Joanna Scanlan (The Thick of It) who delivers a heart-breaking performance as Dickens’ long-suffering wife, Catherine.

Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.

Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success – falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens – a brilliant amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of “invisibility”.

The Invisible Woman will be released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on February 7, 2014.